noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
original
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While Cameron Crowe's ode to rock, Almost Famous bagged best original screenplay and best sound.
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Scripts discussed will be original screenplays or adaptations of the writers' own work.
■ NOUN
writer
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Greene wasn't just a novelist - he was a brilliant journalist and screenplay writer .
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At first Alistair took them for other screenplay writers and wedged himself behind the door, at the back of the queue.
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But they didn't look like screenplay writers .
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Hugh Sixsmith was himself a screenplay writer of considerable though uncertain reputation.
■ VERB
write
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Putting these elements together, Greene wrote a screenplay .
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Scherick has yet to determine who will write the screenplay , when filming might begin or the title of the movie.
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I shut myself up for a month to write a screenplay .
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Exploding jokes along the way remind you that David Nobbs wrote the screenplay .
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His attempts to write his own screenplay are deliciously comic depictions of fervent banality.
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A: Nothing compares with the money you can make with a successful series or writing screenplays .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a screenplay based on a novel by John O'Brien
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But they didn't look like screenplay writers.
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Every gardener in this town has a screenplay .
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I really wanted to try to write a screenplay and have the same experience that I have writing fiction.
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I think can at once give the assurance that your screenplays are unusually promising.
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Rereading his faint carbon of the screenplay .
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She felt she could influence the outcome of the screenplay by her concentrated thoughts as the story unfolded.
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The screenplay gives Sally Field a fistful of knives, which she plunges into the places where we hurt the most.